How YOU rated the players in 2014-15

West Bromwich Albion writer Bill Howell runs the rule over the club's centre-of-the-park players in part two of his end-of-season report cards.

MIDFIELDERS

Chris Brunt

Played: 39

Goals: 3

Assists: 11

Fouls: 33

Bookings: 5 Yellow

Shots: 9 On Target 7 Hit Woodwork 2

Chris Brunt

It was a season where he lost the captaincy but if silverware was handed out for graft then this gem of an Irishman would be top of the pile. He didn’t just move to left-back, he owned that number three shirt.

But left midfield is where he should stay for now. You don’t possess a left leg as wondrous as that and keep it tracking right wingers. Sure he can fire a ball high into the stands.. but he can also plant it on a sixpence.

His scruffy header at Burnley as important as any of this mediocre three goal haul. And as for bullets.. Thibaut Courtois almost had his arm taken off. Inching his way towards folklore.

Grade A Just don’t ask him his thoughts on referee Anthony Taylor.

Craig Gardner

Craig Gardner

Played: 38

Goals: 3

Assists: 5

Fouls: 54

Bookings: 10 Yellow

Shots: 20 On Target 18 Hit Woodwork 2

Eleven signings were made last summer and two came off. Gardner was one of them. Full-blooded, with a shot from a cannon. A no-nonsense one hundred per center.

A popular figure in the dressing room he picked up the fans’ Facebook Goal of the Season award for his belter at Crystal Palace which helped lift Albion out of a sef-inflicted Astle Day mess.

Just as memorable was his goal against Villa at The Hawthorns, albeit for slightly different reasons. At times his form waned, at times he really shone - even out wide on the right.

Can be more than content with a solid first season and he won’t be going anywhere in the foreseeable future. The archetypal Pulis player but he may have to fight even harder for a regular spot next season if Pulis brings in his wide targets.

Grade C If Tony Pulis made Subbuteo figures he’d make 11 Gardners

James Morrison

James Morrison

Played: 37

Goals: 4

Assists: 0

Fouls: 32

Bookings: 3 Yellow

Shots: 17 On Target 17 Hit Woodwork 0

The other Mozza is a surly miserable so and so of a singer, this one’s a bubbly, bouncing bundle of fun.

The same fans that were having a pop at Brunt during the bad days were having a chirp at Morrison too.

Their reasoning? That Brunt, Morrison, Mulumbu and Dorrans - the backbone of the promoted side five years back - were still there.

Zestful and zippy, happiest alongside his fellow countryman Darren Fletcher. Possessor of a great shot that should have seen him carry off the Goal of the Season award against West Ham.

Morrison rolled back the years during that second half of the season with some of his best performances yet. He didn’t punch any of his team-mates either.

Stephane Sessegnon

Played: 33

Goals: 1

Assists: 3

Fouls: 13

Bookings: 5 Yellow

Shots: 13 On Target 12 Hit Woodwork 1

The Hawthorns crowd love him.

Through the bad times under Alan Irvine he was seen as the shining light, the one player who could do the unpredictable, who could run with the ball, who could dribble and tease and torment. Then under Tony Pulis he was given a good crack of the whip.

Again his popularity continued, but the inconsistencies - not just from game to game but within them - remained.

He could deliver 30 minutes of 45 minutes but no more. Apart from against Stoke at home in March when he was terrific and really looked interested in extending his one year deal.

A fine goal against Manchester United which won him the Supporters’ Goal of the Season served notice of his ability but one goal in 33 games isn’t nearly enough.

He lost his place after QPR battered Albion. Soon he would be getting a taxi home from Newcastle, all this after a difficult spell in his personal life following a yet unspecified tragedy.

Grade E Taxi to Watford? Bournemouth? Norwich? Cash.

Claudio Yacob

Claudio Yacob

Played: 26

Goals: 0

Assists: 0

Fouls: 38

Bookings: 6 Yellow

Red Cards: 2

Shots: 3 On Target 3 Hit Woodwork 0

It looked for the world as if the Argentine, once spotted by Dan Ashworth who scoured a fence to watch him play, would be waving arrivederci to Blighty after a wasted first half of the season.

Then Tony Pulis came in and Yacob did what he does best, throwing a thick fire blanket over opposition flames.

Sent off at Chelsea when Diego Costa looked, momentarily at least, as if he’d been shot.

Then sent off at Villa for a tackle that would have been so mind-bogglingly dangerous on Leandro Bacuna - who of course collapsed to the turf writhing in agony - a, if he had been within a yard of Bacuna, and b, had he actually made a tackle on anyone.

Terrific against the teams that came at Albion - as seen against Chelsea at the end of the season.

Not always great against the lesser lights who waited for Albion to attack. Fortunately, there weren’t many of them.

A new contract is on the horizon.

Grade B He’s magic you know, you’ll never get past Claudio.

Youssuf Mulumbu

Youssouf Mulumbu

Played: 21

Goals: 0

Assists: 0

Fouls: 27

Bookings: 2 Yellow

Red cards: 1

Shots: 3 On Target 3 Hit Woodwork 0

He’s gone but not forgotten and quite likely to pitch up at a Premier League club near you soon.

His gritty performance at Old Trafford towards the end of the season gave him hope of securing a new deal but in the end it wasn’t to be.

Anyone who saw him struggle at Newcastle will know it was probably right for Albion to sever the ties with this modern-day cult hero.

Albion may well live to regret their decision. Time will tell. There’s no doubt Mulumbu went backwards over a difficult 12 months.

It will be a strange summer not having him link himself with Arsenal on Twitter. Thanks for the memories.

Grade D He comes from Africa, he’s better than hair lacquer, the Wacca or Chewbacca (unfortunately not Kaka).

Darren Fletcher

Darren Fletcher

Played: 15

Goals: 1

Assists: 0

Fouls: 10

Bookings: 2 Yellow

Shots: 1 On Target 1 Hit Woodwork 0

As valuable off the pitch as on it, if truth be told. Albion may have possessed the likes of Lescott, Foster, McAuley, Brunt and Morrisson in their ranks but they badly needed a new leader.

2-0 down at Burnley on his debut and playing like a Sunday pub team wasn’t the best way to start. But Fletcher’s presence in the engine room quickly became apparent.

On the pitch he brought out the best in James Morrison and off it his influence on Saido Berahino can be too easily dismissed.

A goal against Leicester on Astle Day a sign of things to come. Ah... Astle Day.. all white and no pinstripes.. they all looked like legends.

Grade B Could have been eating Jellied eels and meeting Russell Brand. West Ham’s loss was clearly Albion’s gain.

Callum McManaman

Callum McManaman

Played: 10

Goals: 0

Assists: 1

Fouls: 5

Bookings: 1 Yellow

Shots: 2 On Target 2 Hit Woodwork 0

They are not the stats of a warrior: one assist and five fouls.

Five League starts in four months after a £4.5 million transfer.

But he was far from fit when he swapped a Championship dogfight for a Premier League one and McManaman showed enough glimpses of real pace, acceleration and trickery in games against Swansea and Liverpool to show he has a real future ahead of him.